The Socialist Party’s message to the Irish electorate last week was simple: Go out and vote. Make the local and European elections a referendum on the Property Tax and Water Charges and make your vote count. Cllr. Anne McEllistrim – Inspiration from tales of hardship on the door-steps. The message was swept away by the…
Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Killarney area, John Buckley has backed his party’s call on the Minister for Finance to provive clarity around the situation with Setanta Insurance where some 75,000 policy holders, including many small business owners and van drivers, are at risk of driving without insurance. John Buckley recently bought a policy…
Cllr. Seán Counihan welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte TD Labour Party Cllr. Sean Counihan has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte TD that the government has committed to a major telecommunications network build-out to rural Ireland, with fibre…
The septic tank inspection scheme had been no more than mentioned those few years ago when there were ‘men in vans’ touring the countryside posing as inspectors. We know now from Cllr. John Joe Culloty’s motion and communique that the inspections are well under way. The news isn’t good from an environmental point of view and…
Someone remarked that the two local Fianna Fail candidates, Anne McEllistrim and John Joe Culloty pulled off something of a coup by having party leader, Micheal Martin at their disposal for so long. Anyone who thought Fianna Fail is on its knees locally would have to think again if they encountered the tour de force…
John Buckley from Killarney was selected by Sinn Féin to run in the Killarney Electoral area. Mr. Buckley, 43, is from St. Brendan’s Terrace in Killarney and he was educated in the Mercy Convent and the Vocational Secondary School in the town. He is married to Mary Horgan from Dalton’s Avenue and they have one daughter,…
